Research Projects

What makes galaxies evolve?

Supervisor(s): 

Sarah Brough

Galaxies in our local Universe are quite different from the galaxies we see at cosmological distances (which is also a long time ago). I study nearby galaxies in great detail to understand the physical mechanisms that cause them to evolve.

Fabry Perot interferometer with Quantum Point Contact

Supervisor(s): 

Oleg Sushkov

.Quantum point contact (QPC) is a one dimensional constriction in a two dimensional electron gas. Conductance of a QPC has been known to be quantized in units of G0 = 2e^2/h since 1988 [1,2].

Clemens Ulrich's Research Projects

Supervisor(s): 

Clemens Ulrich

 

Topological spin systems and novel multiferroic materials investigated by optical spectroscopy and neutron scattering

 

Spontaneous spin polarisations in hole systems induced by spin-orbit coupling

Supervisor(s): 

Dimitrie Culcer

Holes are the absence of electrons in a semiconductor, and have very different spin properties than electrons.

Joe Wolfe's projects

The Acoustics Lab offers projects in the fundamental physics of the voice and of musical instruments. These are usually developed in collaboration with the student, because a project on instrument X is more interesting for a player of X and because the physics of women's voices is qualitatively different from that of men's voices.

Sarah Martell's projects - Galactic archaeology with large data sets

Supervisor(s): 

Sarah Martell

Galactic archaeology: Galactic archaeology is the study of the Milky Way's structure and evolution, based on detailed information about the orbits and chemical compositions of the stars in it.

Chris Tinney's Research Projects - Exoplanets and Brown Dwarfs

Supervisor(s): 

Chris Tinney
Prof. Tinney undertakes research in the search for, and study of, exoplanets (planets orbiting other stars) and brown dwarfs (failed stars that share many properties with exoplanets). In support of these research programs he is a leader of the FunnelWeb spectroscopic survey of the southern sky, and head of the Veloce planet search facility at the 3.9m Anglo-Australian Telescope (AAT). He uses telescopes in Australia (AAT) and Chile (6.5m Magellan and 8m ESO Very Large Telescope), as well as data from NASA's TESS planet search mission. The project information below is a snapshot of current activities - students interested in this science are encouraged to come and talk further with him for more details, and other projects in this area.

Physical characterization of protein phase transitions

Supervisor(s): 

Paul Curmi
Krystyna Wilk

Proteins are essentially nanosolids.  They have the same properties as molecular solids of nanometer dimensions (density, compactness, vibrations etc).  Proteins have two additional properties: they consist of a (usually) single polymer chain with a defined sequence and proteins “self assemble” –

Heisenberg-Euler problem for vector bosons

Supervisor(s): 

Michael Kuchiev

It is suggested to study the behaviour of the vacuum state for vector bosons (spin S=1) in the homogeneous static external field.

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